2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's
Schools in the District? One Day? ---- Night? One Sabbath?

3. Location of Schools? Brooksville,
Hernando Co.

4. Whole number of Teachers? None White? One Colored?

5. Name and post-office address of Day School
Teacher? Rev. Mr. Roberts Brooksville, Hernando Co. Fla. is competent to Teach only a primary class, cannot write or cipher both arms being paralized

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in
your District? one Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? owned by Dr. Stringer of Hernando County is in fair condition has capacity for forty scholars. value about $600.00

8. Number of educational meetings held by you
during the month? None Where?

9. Number and names of places, now destitute,
in which Day-Schools might be organized? Tampa, Hillsborough Co.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would
attend such Schools? Seventy

11. Amount which would probably be raised by
the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Freedmen are unable to raise any funds at present but say they will give their labor to erect School Houses

12. What efforts are you making to secure the
support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State
Government?
There are no Schools organized within my district except the one just
stated at Brooksville & that is self sustaining how long it will
Last without aid & I cannot say. my efforts up to this time
have been fruitless, there is not a white man or woman in this dist.
who are competent to teach a School, that are willing to do so, that
is, a freedmans School

13. Whole number of additional School-houses,
for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?
two, one at Tampa and one at Brooksville the one now occupied as
a School house at Brooksville is not owned by the Freedmen.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into
School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools
therein?
I can & have organized School Societies in Tampa and Brooksville
but they cannot raise means to purchase School lots and they find it
impossible to establish Schools of any kind without competent Teachers,
and they cannot be found here.

15. To what extent would help from without be
needed in such cases?
A paid teachers, to purchase lots, and erect School Houses, the greater
part of the Labor of erecting School Houses would be performed by the
freedmen.

16. What is the public sentiment as to the
education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? There is a prejudice against educating the Freedmen. As to the poor whites they do not appear to deserve the (illegible) of their non fortunate neighbors,
so that if they were able to pay for their schooling, they would, not be
interfered with, But no assistance is furnished so that they are as badly off as
the freedmen in the matter of Education.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in
your District? Yes In what way would they be carried on?
One is required at Tampa, it could be superintended by the Teacher of the day Schools if one were
established, the night Schools could afford to pay a reasonable tuition, from 25
to 30 could attend.

18. What more can this Bureau do for
educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? At least one free School is needed in each Co. open to persons of all color,
after a Short time I think such School could be made self sustaining or nearly
so.

19. How long will Northern-charitable aid be
needed for Freemen and Refugee Schooled of your District? There never have been any such Schools within this Dist. to my knowledge except the one now started at Brooksville and
cannot say how the people would interest themselves of what assistance they would
give were such Schools organized

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given person attention to the matters
herein named, and that the answers given are according to my best knowledge and
belief, correct.